U.VA. BOARD ESTABLISHES ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS 
IN LAW AND MEDICINE

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 9 -- The University of Virginia
Board of Visitors established two endowed professorships -- one in
law and one in medicine -- at its meeting here today.  The new
professorships bring to 375 the number of endowed chairs at
U.Va. 	
	In the School of Law the board established the Earle K.
Shawe Professorship in Employment Law.  The professorship is made
possible through the generosity of the Shawe Family Charitable
Foundation and Shawe, a 1934 law school alumnus and a 1931 alumnus
of the College of Arts and Sciences who has had a long and
distinguished career in labor law.  The professorship will be
awarded for fixed terms to members of the law faculty to pursue
research and plan new course offerings in the area of employment law.
	A former attorney with the National Labor Relations Board,
Shawe in 1947 became a founding partner in Shawe and Rosenthal, a
Baltimore law firm dealing in equal employment, wrongful discharge
litigation and traditional labor law with a focus on management
representation in labor relations.  He still serves as managing
partner of the nationally respected firm, of which his son Stephen
is also a partner.
	Shawe has served on numerous government task forces and
professional committees related to labor relations and has written
and lectured for many years on labor law.  In 1968 he established
the Earle K. Shawe Labor Relations Award at the law school to be
given annually to the graduating student who shows the greatest
promise of becoming a successful practitioner in the field of labor
relations.
	In the School of Medicine the board established the S. Ward
Casscells Professorship in Orthopaedic Surgery.  The professorship,
which honors Dr. Casscells' lifetime achievements in orthopaedic
surgery, is made possible through the generosity of Casscells
family.  Dr. Robert E. McLaughlin, vice chair of the Department of
Orthopaedic Surgery, will be the first chairholder.
	Casscells is an internationally-known orthopaedic surgeon
who is credited with revolutionizing the treatment of knee injury
through the application of arthroscopic surgery.  Following the
creation of the first arthroscope, Casscells pioneered the first
clinical techniques for its use.
	He went on to train a generation of orthopaedic residents at
Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania in the
use of this procedure.  His work has resulted in the performance of
joint surgery in outpatient surgery centers, thus allowing the
patient to experience minimal or no hospitalization and rapid
recovery of function with almost no complications.
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February 9, 1996